Lincoln Nebraska State Journal from Lincoln, Nebraska • 26

TWELVE LINCOLN STATE JOURNAL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1926. History of the Clinton School, as Recalled by J. C. Pentzer Radio Talb By Frank Chapman can merchant' vessels at the close of the last fiscal year, as compared with eighty-three In 1925. The Value of this equipment as an aid to navigation and for the purpose of locating vessels in distress is nald to be now generally recognised 'iy steamship companies.

Ground Connections. the little, eager faces haunt me yet as they looked to me to give them something to do. I did the best I could and was promoted. I was nnr a a A in In 1 friendly grln, and hit in order to put it over. Rogers is now so pre-eminent in his promptly forthcoming, and a possible disaster upon the ever-rapacious Atlantic was averted.

More recently a hew broadcast BB0ADCASTS ON MASDI GRAS. H. Van R. Chase, general manager of the New Orleans association of commerce, is to broadcast next Wednesday night a talk on "The Origin, History and Operation of New Orleans' Famous Mardi Gras." The broadcasting station is WSMB, the wave length 319 meters and the time about 9 p. m.

line' that anything can be written about him without inviting the ing organization had its big night RADIO AND FLYING-GREAT INVENTIONS AKPLAKES SATES THAN CAES ON HIGHWAYS. charge that the is prsss agenting him. A man who asked the prince of Wales how he was taking his falls This article will be along the lines of the preceding one In that it la the poorly ma-de ground connection which cuts down your range and "volume too. The majority of persons use a cold water pipe for their ground connection and this la most always a good one if they can connect to the pipe near where It cornea into the house. Ii you connect too far from the ground itself you are liable to have a poor ground connection, due to the material plumbers put on the pipe threads to make them water tight when the pipes are coupled together.

The best way to connect to the pipe is with a clamp. This consists of a strip of zinc or copper about an inch wide and a sixteenth thick with a hole in one end and several In the other end, as shown when he was dumped at the jumps, who told Mussolini that he ought to smile once in a while even if it cracked his face, who has said of the Russians that, no nation. can amount to anything whose people do not put their shirt-tails inside their pants, and who has informed the French that the inventing of delectable aperitifs and the design Next Thing to Be Taken Up Will Probably Be Wireless Telephone! Many Facton to Develop. plied. By clean la meant clean and not Just scraped a little bit.

The thought may come to mind that a soldered connection would be better. It would but have you ever tried soldering anything to a water pipe? As fast as you heat it the water Inside gets warm and circulates with coW water taking its place. Today's Pointer. You have to experiment to get he most from your set. Questions and Answers.

G. J. asks: -i have a home-made regenerative set, but I cannot get the best results by moving the tickler coll. Just a trifle either way and it is either oscillating or not loud enough. What can be done? Answer: You most likely haven't good enough filament control.

Try a rheostat wnere the resistance may be cut in gradually. You might" also try a lower plate voltage. K. L. asks: What 13 the best type of set to purchase for one knowing nothing at all about radio.

I want a ready made set. Answer: The most simple type to operate' are the tuned radio frequency type of Bets with one Of two wave length controls. There are over a dozen makes to choose from. They are five-tuoe sets. Questions of general Interest .0 our radio readers will be answered "jy Mr.

Chapman, space permitting. ing of intriguing frocks will not offset a certain war debt, can get away with almost anything. And Rogers does get away with as? buildings but when a boy could not be controlled In one of those buildings I was Quite apt to get him. I made good citizens of several such boys. My daughter finished her grades (n the old Clinton and after spending six years In the state unlver-i ity, graduating from the teachers' ourse.

she taught in the Clinton, i erving one year as assistant prln-'JpaJ. She sent her two boys to that school and when the building was torn down she asked me -to get one of the bricks that she might keep It as a souvenir. The first day In school is a very severe trial to a sensitive child. My grandchildren have felt free to ask me to go with them the first day and I never refused. I went with Lois, the rirst granddaughter, and when she sat in the circle In the kindergarden I must sit behind her so she could.

reach me. She has a home of her own now in beautiful Pasadena. The of school would not permit Wilbur, the second boy, to go to school when hlsf older brother started so he came to grandpa and when I took him to the kindergarten the next year he could read in any First Reader. He took his master's degree In the agricultural college at Ames, Iowa, last year and now Is in the employ of the government at Washington. When these two returned on visit a year or two ago they took pictures of the old building and spoke kindly of their former teachers.

There are hundreds of others who have the same feeling towards the old Clinton. I was In very close touch with the Clinton school during all the TO BID HISTORIC TEXAS' PALACE OF MONEY SHABZS SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 21. (JP) Texas patriots plan to drive out the money changers from the halis of the historic palace here where once the governors of Spain ruled Texas with all the pomp and splendor of the Spanish court The building stands in downtown San' Antonio, and its halls are filled with second-hand shops and small stores. By some it is believed be the most important historical structure In the state, not even excepting the Alamo.

Over the palace doorway still can be seen the old Spanish coat of arms and the date 1749. The union by marriage of the Austrian and Spanish royal families Is noted In the coat of arms, whlc includes the Austrian double eagle. A movement of repair the walls and reroof the building in fostered by the Texas Historical and Landmarks association and the Sons and Daughters of the Heroes of Texas. GROUND CLnM BOLT AND NUT on the air. Even the cheapest of crystal sets in Washington made possible a miracle.

In New York distinguished gentlemen made speeches, a wonderful symphony orchestra played, a great chorus sang, world-famous soloists performed, time-honored comedians did their stuff, and numerous orchestras of hotels or night clubs where most Americans would like to be or, at least, spend a few hours rendered their stirring numbers, the apotheosis of modernity and jazz in music. Out in Chicago, Mary Garden, beloved and popular grand opera prima donna, 'In her studio hotel apartment sang "Annie Laurie" and another song or two In that liquid-gold voice of hers that is no more marvelous than her personality, i An Audience of Millions. Out of somewhere came a half-hysterical voice proclaiming that Its owner was almost delirious over the Idea that he was performing for an audience of possibly fifty million people. Why shouldn't he be delirious? But a few years ago, a stage performance drew a maximum of 1,500 to 2,000 auditors; grand opera might have an audience of an Intercollegiate championship football game might command an attendance of 20,000 to or avworld series baseball game might draw 40,000 enthusiasts thru the closely guarded gates. And then, from Independence, came the voice of Will Rogers, not so halting or so rasping as It once was, and far less needing bis lariat, his gum-chewing, his in the drawing.

The strip Is bent around the pipe and fastened with a machine screw or bolt. The vari Frederick J. Haskln. Just tie other day the pilot of an airplane that carries mall made his 110 th trip totaling more than 66,000 miles over a route that necessitates flying over high mountain ranges from an inter-mountain city to a Pacific coaBt city, with reversed conditions on the return trip. He has never had an accident He takes his flying casually, and says that It Is far safer than operaltng an automobile on congested city streets or crowded country highways.

With him on his 110th trip he carried a newspaper tnan from the lnter-mountaln city Who had gone along, as he said, Just for the ride. The newspaper man did not have to walk home, (t may be recorded. Shortly before that, broadcasting along the AUantlo coastal region Int.mmt and tnnnH ous holes allow for different sizes of The pipe should be carefully cleaned before the clamp Is ap in the kind of a mess that he ought everything. He went abroad and wrote a series of magazine articles that purported to be the observations of himself as a self-constituted observer for President Cool-Idge, and yet, despite a possible presidential prejudice and an immigration law that bars persons guilty of moral turpitude, he was permitted to slip by the goddess of liberty In New York harbor when he came back. He said, in his stunt on the air, that the affair which President Coolldge went from Washington to Kansas City to dedicate, looked more like a silo than a monument, and nothing happened to him.

He boasted that on his recent return from Europe, Mary Garden had kissed him, asked his auditors to consider what it meant to get the odori of Mary Garden perfume off the original, and challenged Mrs. Rogers, "somewhere in California," to hearken to what he was saying, and, to date, neither wire nor wireless has reported that he's to be( considering his ways. Now For Wireless Telephone 'All of that, or most of it. came over the radio and was dufy delivered thru that cheap crystal set in Washington. Such are some of the wonders of the air.

Others are set forth In government documents. Read the report that the Commis evening because a ship in distress at sea was signalling for help Nothing was permitted to interfere with the transmission and receipt of the message or call that was a matter of life or death to the voyagers on that vessel. With a "clear air" the distress signal was duly received, aid was sioner of Navigation of the Depart ment, of Commerce, D. B. Carson, Just made public.

LINCOLN, Nov. 26. To the Editor: I attended the formal opening of the new Clinton school building and received some very strong Impressions. I was almost bewildered by the labyrinth of halls and rooms. With some difficulty I found a seat In the gieat auditorium and listened to the program.

There was no curtain on the stage but memory drew back a curtain and I recalled the past 1 saw a picture In my mind of my first school room, just a shell of a house, no desks, no blackboard, no maps, no free books nor material of any kind, not even fuel just a shell of a house and a teacher. The house stood in the edge of the timber and there was no other building of any kind In sight From that school young men and young women went out Into life and became useful citizens, some thru higher education to positions of trust. Since- that school with its very primitive conditions I have seen many marvelous Improvements In our public schools. I reached the climax when I visited this new building. As I listened to the talks the thought came to me that we sometimes forget what we owe to pioneers.

At my earnest solicitation one of the three men who located the capital of this great state visited the Clinton school and told the story to as many as could be crowded Into one room. This was T. P. Kennard and he stood and talked to children whose faces he could not see, giving them history at first hand as he told them how the commissioners sat in the prairie grass and marked out the tuture city. He is dead and Lincoln has done nothing t'b perpetuate his memory.

Another man walks the streets of this city who was member of the first class that graduated from the state university and has filled many important positions and today he walks among strangers. At about five o'clock each evening a very quiet man may be seen walking td his home In East Lincoln. He was a member of the board of education when the old high school was built and they hired a man to plow a fire guard to protect the building from prairie fires. He was a member of the board of regents when there was only one building on the campus and then saw that in the future there would be need for more room and wanted to move out east where land was cheap and where there would be room to expand. They thought he was luny.

He has been Judge of our district court and Is the oldest practicing attorney in the city and yet when he walks our streets who knows Judge S. J. Tuttle. This is a peculiarity of Lincoln. When a man has.

served his day and the public has no further use for him they push him off. the walk and pass on and forget him. When I heard what was said at the opening of the new Clinton I was made sad by some of the things said and the thought of the many kind things that' might have been said Instead. I would have felt much better If there had not been the slightest reference to any other than the present magnificent Clinton school. When 1 speak of the Clinton school Jet me say that I never taught In that building and never asked to be assigned there.

The superintendent had a different use for me and generally chucked me where no one else wished to go and where he could not peacefully send a woman. I was getting $450 a year and was saving money to buy a home and was satisfied. When Superintendent Hartley sent me to a one-room building and gave me seventy-two first grade pupils without kindergarten training I was severely tried, I was without training for that line of work and PBICES FOB POTATOES SEEM DESTINED TO FALL CHICAGO, Nov. 27.H) H1BQ priced white ironically styled Nordies, appear to be facing a lively figlU in markets turnout the country. A report today from the government bureau of 'agricultural economics says stored vegetables, Including sweet potatoes, are in heavier production than a year ago and are also lower priced.

More severe competition, too, may result from an apparent general disposition now to increase all southern truck crop acreage. White" potato prices, the report says, bvem iikejy to enter the winter months $1 a hundredweight under last season's level. This authority says that radio telephone service between the United States and Great Britain In the near future Is a reasonable possibility. As to the time when a properly accoutred person will be able, in his pregrinations, wherever they may lead him, at any moment to unhook something, shoot up a lightning rod, or do anything else, press a button, and thereby establish oral communication with a far-distant friend or foe, the government of the United Statesdoes noLpredict. Uncle Sam forecasts the weather and estimates crops, but that Is aboift as far as he goes in the matter of predictions.

Development of the wonders of the air depends upon-many. factors, not the least Important of whioh is the activity of amateurs." For Instance, the government figures show that on June 30 last there were 14,902 amateur radio stations in the United States. This means' that there is a large number of enthusiastic, intelligent, and capable non-professionals in the country constantly engaged in experimental work bearing unpn air communication, and that at any fime any one of these amateurs may bring forth a new idea that will prove of Inestimable And, the way, radio compasses were in use on 230 Ameri- Commercial plctoradiogram serv ices are now in operation between New York and London and San Francisco and Honolulu. By means of this development, photographs, years tnat Miss Bertha Green was principal, both as a patron and. as a citizen.

Conditions were very crude when she took charge of the school, with a shifting and unstable population and many things that made the work hard. I stood ready to be called at any time that 1 could be of service to the school. I know from my intimate acquaintance with the neighborhood that ber influence was for good in every family represented in her school. The value, the true worth, of such a teacher cannot be measured by dollars. I have studied the scho6l question from every angle.

I have had the unique experience of being a-teacher, a patron and a member or the school board all at the sama time, of course not all in the samp district and not in Lincoln. All along the line from that very primitive school of early childhood to the present equipment where the teacher has every aid that money can buy, one fact stands out and that is that the real worth nf th pictures, advertisements, legal documents, banks checks, cartoons, finger prints, and similar pictorial or printed matter are now quickly transmitted and reproduced. Communication via telephone In a 'serv Marital Treaty. Pathfinder: "You and your husband seem to get along better nowadays, Mrs. Hope." "That's because we have now set aside one day in each week to do all the fighting.

On the other days we keep the peace." ice that can dispense with wires. telephone poles, linemen, and other Incidentals of ordinary telephone service has also been established. school, the permanent value of the school, depends on the personality of the teacher, and this personality can not be measured by diplomas nor by. degrees. Xhe greatest work lhat a teacher can possibly do ia to create in the mind of the child a a iwic lui LUP beautiful.

Why is that with all our lavish eXDendilure of monpv in nnr modern education, crime and law lessness are constantly on the increase? I believe that those who were engaged in the public school of thl Clty fiftvvears nen did thn hamt Brings the Artist Into Your Home 1 Vlother and they could under the then present conditions. I believe this is true of those who were in the work twenty-five years ago. We make improvements with the least friction when we take what we have, giving due credit for all that lias been clone, and go on and make conditions better, so as to get better results. Just now Lincoln is suffering a frost from the self complacency of those in charge of public affairs. J.

C. PENTZER. the Girls now get distance like veterans SCOUT COUNCIL IS HEARING THE TOP due to UjewDiscoverp i Thorola Model 59 Deluxe Coneola But Ten Points Below First in D(ew Used with Batterlrt -or jm rmver uperaieu Receiver List of Sixty Groups of This Region Which Has Six States. But ten points out of first place In regional efficiency rating, the Lincoln boy scout council will make a valient effort during December to make up the difference and land on top of the heap of sixty councils by the end of the year. Six states are lncluired In this region.

With this purpose in view, an executive board meeting has been called for Monday $oon at the chamber of commerce. Scout mas- Through the new Jost think what has happened in radio when mother and the girls, who before got only squeals and howls get distant stations now just like experts. It isn't practice a new dis- OOVervmnlfM this nrtiiik1 fnr aaZsat ters and assistants will hold a "pep" dinner at the Grand hotel at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday with the object of doing all that is possible during the closing weeks.

Scout Executive Kent expressed optimism Saturday as to the ability of the local council to make the grade. Lincoln scouts stood second in the rating of eighth region at the regional conference held in Joseph, last week. That award was on showing to date. Lincoln stood second with 1,070 points, exactly ten points below first place. During this December rush to the wire, one regular court of honor session will be held and if a special court will be called.

The council to finish on top at the end of the year will receive a mammoth loving cup, gift of Walter W. Head of Omaha, national president of the Boy Scouts of America and formerly regional director. Executive Kent said that by doing a little extra work, local scouts will be able to push ahead. Several are almost ripe for the tenderfoot tests and by passing these, will boost enrollment points. Advancement from certain degrees to higher ones will produce more points for the grand total.

Another section of scout work to be built up to a prospective leadership ia the matter of points on camping. Scouts who spend seven days and as many nights in camp during the year, help pile up the points. There are a number of local scouts who are a bit short of the Seven but who may eaoily make It up. by stays at the winter overnight camp. Horn and Cone Speaker It "erases regeneration me direct cause of squeals, howls and distortion.

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